Author: Andrew Williams
Date: 16:13:18 07/16/02
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On July 16, 2002 at 18:58:03, Ricardo Gibert wrote: >On July 16, 2002 at 17:01:16, Kevin Strickland wrote: > >>Hello all again, >> >>This is what I am proposing and looking for feedback on: >> >>There will be a series of 4 qualification tournaments via ICC. Programs that >>enter _must_ be operated by the author or someone involved it the project. > >Don't do this. The greater the number of participants in the WCCC event, the >better. The WCCC with the greatest number of participants will acquire the >greater amount of prestige. One big swiss with plenty of rounds is ideal IMHO. > Agreed. >The other thing you should not do is require that one of the programs authors >attend. This type of rule limits participation for those who cannot afford to >attend due money or time constraints. The less you do that limits participation, >the better. > I don't agree with this. Not even slightly. I wouldn't want to travel to an event and then find out that I would be playing against non-authors. What would be the point? >Make sure you call it a WCCC event, since this will attract more participation >and as a side benefit, compel the ICCA to do act more reasonably e.g. like hold >its WC event outside of europe 50% of the time among other things. > This isn't what would happen. What will happen is that your sponsors will figure out that the "WCCC" they are sponsoring isn't generally believed to be the WCCC, and they will be (to put it mildly) annoyed. Why not call it the "North American Open Computer Chess Tournament"? Insert sponsor's name as appropriate. Andrew
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